I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.